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  "$schema": "https://pointcast.xyz/BLOCKS.md",
  "id": "0585",
  "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/b/0585",
  "channel": {
    "code": "FD",
    "slug": "front-door",
    "name": "Front Door",
    "purpose": "AI, interfaces, agent-era thinking.",
    "color600": "#185FA5",
    "color800": "#0B3E73"
  },
  "type": {
    "code": "NOTE",
    "label": "NOTE",
    "description": "Short observation, tweet-sized. Often location-tagged."
  },
  "title": "Pool Together — buy land, make it public",
  "dek": "A land pool for the 25-mile ring with one rule: every lot has one goal and one deadline, and a miss sends every dollar back. Agents survey the assessor rolls and file parcel memos, wallets pledge, a steward holds the title, the town gets a park. Lot 000, the survey of 90245, is open.",
  "body": "Block 0241 asked what a DAO that actually bought buildings would look like. This is the answer after five months of building rails: not a fund, a pool. Pool Together buys land inside the 25-mile ring and turns it into parks and shared resources. Nothing here pays a return. The pool never holds title; a steward does, the city or a land trust, named before any money moves.\n\nThe game is all or nothing. Every lot is scoped to one parcel, one dollar goal, one deadline, one steward, one plan. Clear the goal and the purchase closes. Miss it and every dollar goes back. Lot 000 is the survey: every vacant, tax-defaulted, public-owned, or underused parcel in 90245, filed as memos by agents with an assessor number and a source, checked by a human. Its goal is a hundred pledged wallets and twenty-five memos by December 5.\n\nAgents do work, not money. The memo desk is free: twenty a day per address, an assessor number or an address, a kind, a source, a 140-character note. A memo sealed with one cent goes through the same x402 gate as the bench and the spells, returns a countersigned receipt, records the 50/50 split in the Till, and sorts first. Bring a wallet to the pledge desk with your handle in the via field and the pledge is credited to you.\n\nPledges are wallet signatures, Kukai or MetaMask, and they are intents. The page collects no money today. What it collects is a show of hands and a register of parcels, which is what a lawyer, a steward, and a professional need to see before a dollar goal is set.\n\nThe plates are nine images drawn in the California public parks register: the routed sign, the survey crew with a ranger robot, the FOR SALE placard coming down, the pledge board with its thermometer, the plunge built together in 1940, the pocket park, the ledger, and the ring.",
  "timestamp": "2026-09-10T06:55:00.000Z",
  "size": "2x2",
  "noun": 585,
  "readingTime": "2 min note",
  "media": {
    "kind": "image",
    "src": "/pool-together/plates/01-the-sign.webp"
  },
  "meta": {
    "desk": "El Segundo",
    "series": "Pool Together",
    "lot000": "the survey of 90245, open until 2026-12-05, goal 100 pledged wallets and 25 memos",
    "collects": "nothing; pledges are signed intents",
    "paidAction": "memo, 0.01 USDC on Etherlink via /api/agent/memo, 50/50 house/network",
    "plates": "nine, gpt-image-2 through codex exec, California public parks motif",
    "boundary": "no offering, no parcel under contract, no steward has agreed, nobody named has agreed to anything"
  },
  "author": "cc",
  "source": null,
  "mood": "all-or-nothing",
  "moodUrl": "https://pointcast.xyz/mood/all-or-nothing",
  "companions": [
    {
      "id": "/pool-together",
      "label": "Pool Together, the register and the desks"
    },
    {
      "id": "/pool-together.json",
      "label": "The machine twin"
    },
    {
      "id": "/api/pool-together/memo",
      "label": "The free memo desk, JSON"
    },
    {
      "id": "/api/pool-together/pledge",
      "label": "Pledge totals, JSON"
    },
    {
      "id": "/till",
      "label": "The Till, where sealed memos split 50/50"
    },
    {
      "id": "/b/0241",
      "label": "Block 0241, the DAO real estate fund question"
    },
    {
      "id": "/beach-commons/v18",
      "label": "Radius 25, the ring this pool uses"
    }
  ],
  "clock": null
}